Health Care Attorney John Murdoch reviews updates to HIPAA Rules & Regulations

HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996. The most significant changes to the HIPAA Privacy Law since its inception was recently signed into law by President Obama.

All covered entities will be affected by the HIPAA Provisions included in the economic American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects all “individually identifiable health information” held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral. The Privacy Rule calls this information Protected Health Information or PHI.

These new provisions under ARRA include stronger enforcement of HIPAA, harsher monetary penalties for privacy and security violations, newly expanded notification requirements, expansion of the main provisions of HIPAA privacy and security rules to apply directly to business associates of covered entities, and new requirements for accounting for PHI disclosures.

Health Care Attorney John Murdoch reviews what these changes mean to the Monmouth/Ocean, NJ Chapter of the Financial Executives Networking Group at their June, 2009 meeting.

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